We see that the risen Christ is the source of our resilience and hope: Head of the UGCC on the 62 nd week of full-scale war
We have a sense that despite the ongoing war and the aggressor’s continued violence, the risen Christ is revitalizing the Ukrainian people. Cities and villages live and develop. Life is pulsating. His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, said on the 62 nd week of the full-scale military aggression that the Russian occupier brought to our peaceful land.
“We see how the city of Kropyvnytskyi and the Cherkasy region have managed this year to receive tens of thousands of internally displaced persons and integrate them and accept them. These people have found their dignity, their place in society,” said His Beatitude Sviatoslav.
The Primate thanked God that during Bright Week, he could visit our country’s central and southern regions and experience these Easter meetings in light of the Lord’s Pascha.
The Head of the UGCC noted that our Church, mainly through its social ministry, has truly helped people, perhaps at the roughest moment in their life stories.
He said the Church is beginning to open centers for healing war wounds. Priests, Christian psychologists, and social service centers of the UGCC are meeting people in need.
“And the joy of the Risen One in those centers for healing the wounds of war is something that gives us hope, makes us stronger, and, indeed, heals. And we see that the Risen Christ is the source of our resilience and hope,” said the Primate.
At the same time, he added, unfortunately, even at this Easter time, we are experiencing the tragedy of death: “How hard it is to bury young boys and girls when everything is in the full glow! These days we go to our cemeteries to sing at the graves of our dead: ‘Christ is risen from the dead!’”.
“We ask You, our Lord and Savior, to heal our wounds today. Lord and Savior, strengthen our people serving at the front. Lord and Savior, animate our homeland with the power of Your resurrection, and grant our people Your just heavenly peace,” the Head of the UGCC asked.
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